Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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

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

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.

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.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The seed of revolution is repression.