One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.