Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

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.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.