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

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.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

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

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