Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Let my enemies devour each other.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Example is leadership.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.