He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Action expresses priorities.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.