Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Quitting is leading too.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
