Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
