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

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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.

I fight on. I fight to win.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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