Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
