Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
