Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

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

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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.

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.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.