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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Example is leadership.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

A leader leads by example, not by force

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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