Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.