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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.