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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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.

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.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.