Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.