When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

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.

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

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.