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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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