To lead the people, walk behind them.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

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

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.