Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

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

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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.