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

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.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.