No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

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

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

Quitting is leading too.

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.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.