The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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

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

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Action expresses priorities.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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

Quitting is leading too.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Politics have no relation to morals.