Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

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

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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