Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

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

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

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property