No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The lady's not for turning.

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

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.