He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Politics have no relation to morals.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
