Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

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

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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

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

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