“The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.”

I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one with out the other. They coincide.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.