Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
We tend to get what we expect.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.