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

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

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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