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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

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

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

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

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.