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.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
