At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Socialism means slavery.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

You can do it. Go ahead and pursue your dreams.

God' is an excuse to justify hate.

You get educated by traveling.

I'm a fighter. I'm a warrior. I'll fight anybody.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.