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 problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
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.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
