Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

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

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

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

We tend to get what we expect.