The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Don't fight forces, use them.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
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.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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.
