You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
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.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
