Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.