Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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