How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
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.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A leader leads by example, not by force
Don't fight forces, use them.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
