A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
We tend to get what we expect.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.