No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.