In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

The lady's not for turning.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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

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

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

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.

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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