Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

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

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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