A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

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

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.