The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

A leader leads by example, not by force

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.