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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

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

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Let my enemies devour each other.