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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.