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.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
