Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Politics have no relation to morals.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.