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.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
