Don't fight forces, use them.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

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.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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

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

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.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.