The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

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

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.