This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

Example is leadership.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.