That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable