Example is leadership.

Politics have no relation to morals.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.