An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
The seed of revolution is repression.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees