How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Politics have no relation to morals.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.