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

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

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Example is leadership.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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