How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
