The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Quitting is leading too.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.