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.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
I fight on. I fight to win.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down