It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

The lady's not for turning.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.