You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
