No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Quitting is leading too.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.