Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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

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

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

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

We tend to get what we expect.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

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

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

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.