If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.