"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"As I would not be a slave, neither would I be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

"It's not me who can't keep a secret, it's the people I tell that can't."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."

"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."

"The legitimate object of a government is to do for a community of people what ever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."