It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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.

We tend to get what we expect.