If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
