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

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

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.

Quitting is leading too.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

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

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Information is the currency of democracy.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.