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.

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Quitting is leading too.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

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.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

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.

The seed of revolution is repression.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.