If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The lady's not for turning.

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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