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

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.