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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally. .

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?

...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is only a small part of all the forces of society.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and undernourishment.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.