I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
