This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

The lady's not for turning.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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