If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.