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.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Action expresses priorities.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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.