If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Example is leadership.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Politics have no relation to morals.