Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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.

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Don't fight forces, use them.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Example is leadership.