A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Action expresses priorities.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.