No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.