Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

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.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.