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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Quitting is leading too.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.