A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.