Don't fight forces, use them.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.