It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

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

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

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.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.