It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

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

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.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.