Politics have no relation to morals.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

The lady's not for turning.