Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.