Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.