He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

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

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.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

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

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

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.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.