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.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
