I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Quitting is leading too.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

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