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

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

Action expresses priorities.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

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.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

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

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

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.