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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Action expresses priorities.