There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Quitting is leading too.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
