I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.