Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
The lady's not for turning.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.