Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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.

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

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.