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

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.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

The lady's not for turning.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.