As government expands, liberty contracts.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

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.

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

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

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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