If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
We tend to get what we expect.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
