All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.