He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

We tend to get what we expect.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

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.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

As government expands, liberty contracts.