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

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

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

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

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.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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

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