Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
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.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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.