You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize 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.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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.
