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

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

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.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.