Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Example is leadership.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Quitting is leading too.

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

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.