It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The lady's not for turning.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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