Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Quitting is leading too.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.