Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.