A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
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.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
