Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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.

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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