We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.