A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

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

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Quitting is leading too.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Democracy is the road to socialism.