The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
