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

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Let my enemies devour each other.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.