Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

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