The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Let my enemies devour each other.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
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.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
