Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.