It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

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

Quitting is leading too.

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

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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.

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 leader leads by example, not by force

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.