A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.