Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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