For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
