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

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.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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

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

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Quitting is leading too.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

We tend to get what we expect.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.