I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Action expresses priorities.
I fight on. I fight to win.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Let my enemies devour each other.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.