Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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

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

Action expresses priorities.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.