The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

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

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.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.