Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.