To lead the people, walk behind them.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Example is leadership.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.