I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

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

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

The lady's not for turning.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.