It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Quitting is leading too.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
As government expands, liberty contracts.