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

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

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.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.