Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
