The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

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.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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

Action expresses priorities.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

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