An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Example is leadership.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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.
We tend to get what we expect.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The seed of revolution is repression.