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

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

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Politics have no relation to morals.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

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

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

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

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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