Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.