Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. "
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles. . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.
Better to starve free than be a fat slave
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.