Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Politics have no relation to morals.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

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

Example is leadership.