A leader leads by example, not by force
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
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 have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.