In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

A leader leads by example, not by force

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

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.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.