Any cook should be able to run the country.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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.