A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
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 road to socialism.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.