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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

I fight on. I fight to win.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

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

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