It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Action expresses priorities.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable