What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Let my enemies devour each other.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
