Politics have no relation to morals.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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

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