Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Don't fight forces, use them.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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