Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The seed of revolution is repression.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Politics have no relation to morals.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.