If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.