The lady's not for turning.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

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

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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

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