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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.