Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The lady's not for turning.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

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