Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.