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

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.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Information is the currency of democracy.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.