The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally – not a 20 percent traitor.
Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.
I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they’re not poised over the budget. That’s as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they’re ready to operate on is your wallet.
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
Freedom is indivisible – there is no “s” on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep “some freedoms” while giving up others.
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind’s best hope.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Government is the people’s business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
America must remain freedom’s staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world’s only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.