The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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

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

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

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

Action expresses priorities.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

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