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

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

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

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

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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