Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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.

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

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Example is leadership.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.