Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.