A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority which one man has, to control the liberty of another.

Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority.

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.