The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

The lady's not for turning.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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

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

Example is leadership.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

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

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.