I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life...come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody.
Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise.
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 world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
