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

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.