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

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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