You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.