Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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.

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.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.