The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

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

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

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

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

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.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.