If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

A leader leads by example, not by force

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

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

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

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

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.