Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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