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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

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.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.