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

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Action expresses priorities.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.