Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.