Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Example is leadership.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
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.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
The seed of revolution is repression.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
