They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

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

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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