Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

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

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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