Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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