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.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

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

We tend to get what we expect.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable