He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The lady's not for turning.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A leader leads by example, not by force

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.