The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.