If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.