Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

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.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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