A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
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.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
