Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.