An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

We tend to get what we expect.