Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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