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

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

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

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

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

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

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.