Any cook should be able to run the country.

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.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

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

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.