We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Action expresses priorities.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

The lady's not for turning.

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

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

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.