A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

We tend to get what we expect.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.