Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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 problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.