Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Quitting is leading too.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

A leader leads by example, not by force

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.