Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

I fight on. I fight to win.

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

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.