If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
