If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

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

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.