Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
