Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

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

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.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.