(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
