Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
