Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
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.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
I fight on. I fight to win.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
