Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority.

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

All authority is in the throne; and what is the throne? This wooden frame covered with velvet? No, I am the throne.

If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

In this life we are either kings or pawns, emperors or fools.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.