The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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.
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.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
