A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.