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.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Action expresses priorities.

A leader leads by example, not by force

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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 Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.