Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

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.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!