We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees