We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

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.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.