Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.