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

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

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

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.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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 many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

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

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

We tend to get what we expect.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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

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