Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of 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.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
