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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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