Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.