"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."

"Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains."

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."

"You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected."

"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."

"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."