A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.