You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.