If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Liberty is its own reward.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.