Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
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.
I fight on. I fight to win.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
