Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
