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

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.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Quitting is leading too.

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

A leader leads by example, not by force

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.