The lady's not for turning.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.