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.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Politics have no relation to morals.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front