You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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.
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.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.