Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
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.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The seed of revolution is repression.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.