Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
