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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

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