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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

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

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.