As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.