When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Let my enemies devour each other.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

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

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.