A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

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.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.