Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.