Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.