Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

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

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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