You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

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

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Information is the currency of democracy.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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