Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
