They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The lady's not for turning.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.