The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Action expresses priorities.