Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.