Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
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.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
