Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
A leader leads by example, not by force
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
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.
