We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Der Staat, der nur wegen und aus der Freiheit seiner Menschen besteht, darf sich nicht gegen seine Schöpfer wenden.

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.

Demokratie gestattet keine Politik außerhalb des demokratischen Systems. In diesem Sinne ist Demokratie totalitär.

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.