Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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