We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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.
