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

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Action expresses priorities.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

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.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.