Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Quitting is leading too.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

The lady's not for turning.