It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
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.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
