The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

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.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.