Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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