Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Quitting is leading too.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.