Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
The seed of revolution is repression.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Example is leadership.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.