It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.