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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.