Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.