Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.