Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
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.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
