Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

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

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

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.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Action expresses priorities.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

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

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed