If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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.
Quitting is leading too.