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.

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

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

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.