We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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.

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

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.