A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

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.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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