Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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