Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Let my enemies devour each other.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.