In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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