Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

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.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

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

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.