Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

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

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker