Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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.

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.

The lady's not for turning.

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

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.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.