Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Democracy is the road to socialism.