If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
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.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.