Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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.

Example is leadership.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.