Let my enemies devour each other.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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.

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

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