Let my enemies devour each other.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Action expresses priorities.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.