“Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.