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

The seed of revolution is repression.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Action expresses priorities.