If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Therefore, to maximize your productivity, deliberately focus on precisely one thing at a time.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.