He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.