Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
