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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Action expresses priorities.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Quitting is leading too.