We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.