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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.