A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

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.

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker