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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.