Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.