Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.