Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.