A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

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.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest