Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
