The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.