We tend to get what we expect.

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

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.

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

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

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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