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

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

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

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Information is the currency of democracy.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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

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

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