It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

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.

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

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.