While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
I fight on. I fight to win.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Example is leadership.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it