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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

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

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

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.