All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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

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

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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