In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

We tend to get what we expect.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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

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

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Example is leadership.

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

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.