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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.