The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.