In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
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.
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.
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.
