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

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.