Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.