Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
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.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
