It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

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

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Quitting is leading too.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.