I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

I hate women because they always know where things are.
Voltaire

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Ron Paul

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
Ron Paul

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.
Ron Paul

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt