A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.