Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Example is leadership.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

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.

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

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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