Fascism is capitalism in decay.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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.