For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
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.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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.