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

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

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

The lady's not for turning.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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