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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Action expresses priorities.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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