We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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

Example is leadership.

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.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Action expresses priorities.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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.

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.