There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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