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.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.