This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
A leader leads by example, not by force
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The lady's not for turning.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
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.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
