I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Action expresses priorities.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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

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.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

We tend to get what we expect.