Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.