Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Politics have no relation to morals.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Action expresses priorities.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
