Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Politics have no relation to morals.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
