If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

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

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

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.