Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
