Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.