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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

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