If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

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

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.

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

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.