A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
We tend to get what we expect.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.