The lady's not for turning.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

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

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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