The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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