How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.