Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

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.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.