Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

The lady's not for turning.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

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.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.