We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

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