You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Quitting is leading too.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.