Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

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

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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