When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung.
Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also.
You cannot fail unless you quit.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
Public opinion in this country is everything.