The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
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.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.