No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

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

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.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

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

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

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.