A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
Man is by nature a political animal.
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
The final solution for unemployment is work.
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
That government is best which governs least.
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.