Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
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.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
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.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.