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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

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

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.