In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.