Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.