The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.