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.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Action expresses priorities.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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.

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