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.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Quitting is leading too.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

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