Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
A leader leads by example, not by force
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it