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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.