Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

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

The lady's not for turning.

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.

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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