Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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

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

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

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

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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.

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.