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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.