Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.