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

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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.