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.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Example is leadership.

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

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.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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