Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

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.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.