99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Action expresses priorities.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.