Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

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

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

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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

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.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

Action expresses priorities.