Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Example is leadership.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.