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

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

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.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

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