He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.