Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
We tend to get what we expect.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
A leader leads by example, not by force
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.