Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
