Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Example is leadership.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.