No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Quitting is leading too.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
