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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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 rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

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

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.

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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