You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.

If you can think it

An army marches on its stomach.

You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Dance like nobody's looking.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.