I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.