Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.