Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
