Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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

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.

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

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