Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

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.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

We tend to get what we expect.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.