How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.