Information is the currency of democracy.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

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.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.