Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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.

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

Example is leadership.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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