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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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.

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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.