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.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
The lady's not for turning.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
