If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.