We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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.
Don't fight forces, use them.
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.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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.
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.
