The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.