Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

Quitting is leading too.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.