A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.