“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.”

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

“Power never concedes anything without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

'blackwhite' "Applied to the Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.”

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”

“Civilization is the progress of a society toward privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from man.”

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
And then they came for me, and by that time there was no one was left to speak up.”

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”

“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are
  ‘I`m from the government and I'm here to help.’ ”

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”

“I am also struck by the degree to which our lives are becoming ruled by a truly absurd degree of politically correct interference.”

“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights — which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”

“I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone.”

“If anybody ever tries to tell me that Britain has the greatest democratic system in the world, I'll remind them they couldn't be further from the truth. A great democracy wouldn't have room for a powerful, high-ranking politician who publicly and viciously tells millions of motorists that many of them are idiots simply because of the cars they choose to drive.”

“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

“The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.”

“we've all got choices
we've all got voices
stand up make some noise”

“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”