Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
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.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
