I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

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

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

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

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

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees