A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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.

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

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.

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

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Quitting is leading too.

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

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