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

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Action expresses priorities.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

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.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.