Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

I fight on. I fight to win.

The lady's not for turning.

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.