Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

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

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.