Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

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

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.