Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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 worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.