Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
