Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Example is leadership.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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