Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

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

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

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

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

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.