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.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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.

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.