Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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.