God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Quitting is leading too.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

I fight on. I fight to win.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.