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

Let my enemies devour each other.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Action expresses priorities.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.