Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

We tend to get what we expect.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.