Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
The seed of revolution is repression.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
