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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Action expresses priorities.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.