The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
