A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
