Don't fight forces, use them.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.