The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

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

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.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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.