Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

A leader leads by example, not by force

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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.

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.

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

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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.