If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

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