We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

The lady's not for turning.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

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

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.