Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
A leader leads by example, not by force
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.