“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”

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

“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.”

“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.”

“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”

“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.”

“We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.”

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

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.”

“Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.”