If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

People have always been and will always be silly victims of deception and self-deception in politics, unless they learn to recognize the interests of certain classes behind any moral, religious, political, social phrases, statements, promises.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

No, I've never really changed. Nothing's changed my mind. And by the way, you know, you have a huge group of people - I walk down the street, and people are screaming, "Please don't give that up." A lot of people are questioning his birth certificate. They're questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate.