Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

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

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

We tend to get what we expect.

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes