Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
The lady's not for turning.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest