The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.