Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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

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