He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.