Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says 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.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes