You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

The lady's not for turning.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable