Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

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.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.