Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
The lady's not for turning.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
A leader leads by example, not by force
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Quitting is leading too.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.