Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker