Fascism is capitalism in decay.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.