I fight on. I fight to win.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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