It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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.
Action expresses priorities.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
