Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

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.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.