We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
