A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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.

Quitting is leading too.

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

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

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.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.