In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

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

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

The lady's not for turning.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

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.