If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

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

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.