Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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.

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