I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple

In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don’t forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

I will never turn to God.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.