Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

I fight on. I fight to win.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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