Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I fight on. I fight to win.

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

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

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.

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

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

As government expands, liberty contracts.