Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Quitting is leading too.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.