Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

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.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.