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

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

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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.

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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

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

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.

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

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