The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
We tend to get what we expect.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
