I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Example is leadership.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

The lady's not for turning.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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