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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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.

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

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

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

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

Example is leadership.