Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
A leader leads by example, not by force
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Quitting is leading too.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Example is leadership.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.