Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
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.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.