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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one system; they condition each other.

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.

Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.