Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Revolutions are always verbose.
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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