No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
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.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
