Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
