Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Information is the currency of democracy.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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

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.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

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

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.