It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The lady's not for turning.

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

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

We tend to get what we expect.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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.