The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.