Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

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

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

The lady's not for turning.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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