Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Don't fight forces, use them.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.