Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Let my enemies devour each other.

Don't fight forces, use them.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

We tend to get what we expect.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

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

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

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.