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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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.

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

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.