We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

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.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting 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.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.