As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

A gun is not an argument.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.