This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
