He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

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

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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.