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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.