Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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