Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The seed of revolution is repression.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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

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 means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Quitting is leading too.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.