In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.