Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Don't fight forces, use them.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.