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.
Example is leadership.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
