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

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.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.