Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
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.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.