Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.