Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

We tend to get what we expect.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.