I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.