Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.