As government expands, liberty contracts.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
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.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
