Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
