Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Don't fight forces, use them.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.