Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
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.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
