No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

I fight on. I fight to win.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

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.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

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.