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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Quitting is leading too.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.