Action expresses priorities.
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.
Don't fight forces, use them.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
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.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
