Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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

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

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Example is leadership.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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

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.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.