It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.