It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.