To lead the people, walk behind them.
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.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.