The lady's not for turning.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

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

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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.

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