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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

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

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

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.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

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