Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.