Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
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.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.