A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.