Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

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

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

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

When everything has to be right, something isn't.