The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

The lady's not for turning.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.