There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

The lady's not for turning.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Action expresses priorities.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!