In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.