Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

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.

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.