Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
We tend to get what we expect.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.