A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
