Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Let my enemies devour each other.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes