The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Mind sees ghost when frightened and hopeless.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?