Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.