To lead the people, walk behind them.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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