The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.