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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Quitting is leading too.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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

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

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.