The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.