Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
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.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by 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.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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.
We tend to get what we expect.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.