We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.