If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Quitting is leading too.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.