If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
