Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker