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

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

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

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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.