"No Man is so much a Fool as not to have Wit enough sometimes to be a Knave ; nor any so cunning a Knave, as not to have the Weakness sometimes to play the Fool."

"Popularity is a Crime from the Moment it is sought ; it is only a Virtue where Men have it whether they will or no."

"There is Reason to think the most celebrated Philosophers would have been Bunglers at Business ; but the Reason is because they despised it."

"Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one."

"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past."

"Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms."

"Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen."

"The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World."

"If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place."

"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz. by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer, if they break them."

"When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters."

"Most Mens' Anger about Religion is as if two Men should quarrel for a Lady they neither of them care for."

"Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong."

"Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow."

"A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting."

"The People are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times."

"A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use."

"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."

"The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem."

"Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison."

"A Princely Mind will undo a private Family."

"Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it."

"In your Clothes avoid too much Gaudy ; do not value your self upon an Imbroidered Gown ; and remember, that a reasonable Word, or an obliging Look, will gain you more respect, than all your fine Trappings."

"A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer."

"Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it."

"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much."

"It is a general Mistake to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing."

"Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made."

"A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner."

"Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes."

"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."

"Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves."

"MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it."

"Suspicion seldom wanteth Food to keep it up in Health and Vigour. It feedeth upon every thing it seeth, and is not curious in its Diet."

"A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake."

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

"A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it."

"A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy."

"The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life."

"Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

"Thus proletarian violence has become an essential factor in Marxism. Let us add once more that, if properly conducted, it will have the result of suppressing parliamentary socialism, which will no longer be able to pose as the leader of the working classes and as the guardian of order."

"Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exceedingly obscure; this obscurity is due, to a large extent, to the fact that contemporary socialists use a terminology which no longer corresponds to their ideas."

"And so I am not concerned to justify the perpetrators of violence but to enquire into the function of the violence of the working classes in contemporary socialism."

"All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates."

"Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death."

"In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point."

"The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual — and his rights — as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power."