Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.