This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

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

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.

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