Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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.
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.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
