Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

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