True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.