They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.