Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
I fight on. I fight to win.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
We tend to get what we expect.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.