Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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.
